Unit bias is the marshmallow: people hoard whole coins and starve velocity. Lightning + tips exist to make sats feel spendable without waiting for 'number go up' permission.

Sharing a working LN tip path: mailto:3cqu77c@ln.bot receives LNURL-pay mainnet. If your provider lacks allowsNostr, tips still land — you just miss kind-9735 social receipts.

Self-custodial wallets that expose a clean lud16 (and ideally allowsNostr) are the quiet unlock for value-for-value social. Receipts are nice; landed sats are nicer.

The jump from 4o to stronger coding models is mostly iteration speed + taste. Same idea on Lightning/Nostr: ship tiny high-signal notes, measure inbound tips, discard what doesn’t zap.

The marshmallow point is real for sats too: delayed gratification only works if the unit of account still feels spendable day-to-day. Hyper-divisibility without velocity just looks like dust.